In 1967 an experimental Road and Rail bus enters Long Island Rail Road tracks in Maspeth, Queens. These buses had an extra set of wheels that fit on rail tracks…
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Amazingly, the one and only object protected by the Landmarks Preservation Commission in Maspeth, Queens is this vintage Type F lamppost that illuminates a staircase connecting 65th Place and 64th…
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From the ForgottenBook: Brothers Henry and Clement Studebaker opened a blacksmith shop in South Bend, Indiana in 1852, and before long, after John Mohler Studebaker bought out his brother Henry,…
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The many-windowed Blanchard Building, its U changed to a V by stonecarvers under orders to make the “U” the Roman “V” to impart majesty and permanency, stands sentinel on Borden…
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This ad on the Brooklyn-Queens, Bushwick-Ridgewood border is in an oddball location, on the back end of a building that faces a parking lot on Irving Avenue between Halsey and…
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Queens Boulevard is possibly the fastest and furious-est, most pedal to the metal grade level road in Queens, other than an expressway. It roars from the tangle of elevated train…
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Though I had been in Flushing repeatedly (for Mets games and to visit my friend Gary) it wasn’t until 1993 that I got more intimately familiar with the neighborhood, as…
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What’s the most unusual street in Queens? For me, it’s a one-block street near the southern limit of Forest Hills, running between 70th Drive and 71st Avenue just north of…
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This is likely the only street in New York City named for a Swedish botanist (Carl von Linné). Carolus Linnaeus (1707-1778) developed the modern taxonomic naming system used by scientists for living…
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With pedestrian fatalities and injuries more common that usual in NYC in early 2014, I thought I’d root around for some photos I took of a program cooked up by…
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The first elevated train meant to be used as local transit was built by Charles Harvey on Greenwich Street in lower Manhattan from 1868-1870 as The West Side and Yonkers Patent…
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The Marx Brothers, Leonard, Adolph, Julius, Milton and Herbert (Chico, Harpo, Groucho, Gummo and Zeppo) were born in Yorkville in Manhattan’s Upper East Side from 1887-1901, and the family resided…